Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?
orrk@lemmy.world 2 years agomost people with serious economic issues work minimum
Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?
orrk@lemmy.world 2 years agomost people with serious economic issues work minimum
bstix@feddit.dk 2 years ago
The way out of minimum wage jobs is education. A union agreement also often contains rights to education, so that f.i. a retail worker can be educated into other specialized tasks and use that to demand a higher pay or seek other opportunities.
It’s always uphill encouraging people to do so though…
I’ll continue fighting for higher minimum wages, but I have to say that I also meet a lot of people who have no interest in taking advantage of the opportunities that could get them off minimum wage. Minimum wage is maximum wage if you don’t do anything yourself. Anyone who thinks they’re worth more than minimum needs to get that on paper and shove that paper in their bosses face and ask for a raise or quit the dead end job.